“I am your child. We want a school.” Afghan Street Kids Walk

On the 20th of Jan, 2015, 80 Afghan street kids marched in Kabul to the doors of the Afghan Independent Human Right Commission, and asked for a school.

Let this be on record, that in a global economy based on force, in which, very soon, 1% of the world’s population will own as much as the rest of the world, in which children have little choice but to work, and in which children make up most of the civilian war casualties, these street kids were showing us all the way, the humble way of love.

Nothing romantic, but all patient, and beautiful!

They were not asking the Commission for a school. They were asking fellow human beings for a school, because they were asking for what all of us seem to be losing, the quiet human qualities to recognize what is valuable and to make peace with all: friendship, freedom and dignity.

Afghan street kids want a school

80 Afghan Street Kids walked in Kabul to ask for a school, led by Zekerullah, himself once a street kid

AND IN THE US I JUST READ THAT OVER ONE HALF OF THE CHILDREN HERE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE. SOME SCHOOLS HAVE PROGRAMS THAT FEED THEM AT LEAST ONE MEAL A DAY —- DURING SCHOOL DAYS, BUT THEY DON’T HELP FEED THEM ON THE WEEKENDS.
BUT THERE IS MONEY IN THE US FOR MISSILES AND BOMBS AND DRONES.

THE CHILD IN THE US LIKE THE CHILD IN AFGHANISTAN IS MY CHILD! WHAT A TOPSY-TURVY, HEARTLESS SITUATION! LEE LOE, TEXAS GRANDMOTHER FOR PEACE